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The Balingen Cemetery Church was built in the 11th century and was originally the parish church of the village. In the 14th century, the church was demolished and the church that still exists today was built. Parts of the previous Romanesque building have been preserved in the tower and the nave. In 1912 the cemetery church was renovated. It revealed frescoes that the Brotherhood of San Sebastian had painted in the choir of the church.

Besides some oldest part dating back to the 12th century, there are also 15th century frescos. The church is built of partly whitewashed fieldstone. It is a hall church ending in a choir with an apse.

The Balke church is a high medieval stone church with a rectangular nave and a relatively short chancel with a semicircular end. In 1714 the old porch was demolished and the church was extended to the west. Originally, the nave had two narrow windows to the south, while the present windows appeared in 1822. Only the arched windows in the apse have their original shape.

The Cathedral of the Annunciation or simply Ballaghaderreen Cathedral was built in the neo-Gothic style from 1855 to 1860. The bell tower with a spire and a carillon of bells was added in 1912 by the project architect, William H. Byrne.

Ballangen Church was consecrated in 1923 after a royal decree authorised the consecration of a church building on the site for use by settlers on the south side of Ofotfjorden. The church was restored in 1998 and then returned to its original style.

A shrine style like that of the Naziresha Mosque in the same town, it is the typical Albanian Islamic achitecture. The style consists a prayer hall, the portico at the front of the entrance and the minaret to the right and a raised hemispherical dome with an octagonal polygonal drum.

The Church of Ireland is a province of the Anglican Communion. Ballyholme is in the United Dioceses of Down and Dromore and one of nine parishes in the Area Deanery of Clandeboye. St Columbanus is a growing Church of Ireland parish on the Groomsport Road right in the heart of Ballyholme village.

The Balsfjord church in is a long church dating from 1856. The church was designed by Christian H. Grosch and was built in 1864-1856 and inaugurated on 19 October 1856. The church is a long, white-painted church in neo-gothic style with a tower placed axially to the west. The tower helps to give the church its distinctive character.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but the oldest preserved gravestone relates to the early 18th century. Presumably, first, it was marked on Russian maps of the 1870s.

Bamberg Cathedral was founded in 1004 by Emperor Henry II, completed in 1012 and consecrated on 6 May 1012. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1081. The new cathedral, built by Bishop Otto of Bamberg, was consecrated in 1111 and was given its present late Romanesque form in the 13th century. Among the cathedral's many works is a marble tomb, carved between 1499 and 1513, where its founder, Henry II, and his wife, Empress St. Cunigunde, rest. Another of the cathedral's treasures is the equestrian statue known as the Bamberg Horseman. The cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.